USWNT and Twitter: Resistance and Activism in the Equal Pay Campaign

Research for this study of the “equal pay campaign” centers around the following overarching question: how does the USWNT use Twitter as a performative mechanism for expressing and enhancing social activist causes? In particular, my research explores how members of the USWNT, both individually and collectively use social media in the pursuit of gender equality and equal pay provisions. In what specific ways have the women engaged social media and why do they rely upon Twitter in particular? How does the rhetoric that the women use accentuate their motivations and advance their social activist cause? Is the women’s use of Twitter effective in achieving the goals of their equal pay campaign? Which players use Twitter most prominently? Is this a matter of individual or coordinated expression? Why is this significant? Has the use of Twitter changed over the 4-years that I surveyed and, if so, in what ways? Within the lengthy conflict between the USWNT and the USSF, this paper surveys the years 2016 to the present to explore how the use of media has changed over time. The chronology was chosen because it coincides with the USWNT’s concentrated pursuit of the equal pay campaign. In sum, the paper focuses on how the 23 USWNT players, who featured in the 2019 Women’s World Cup roster, used Twitter as a way to push back on the USSF and apply pressure on the federation in an attempt to fix the pay disparity. This paper argues that in the context of its disputes with the USSF over equality, the USWNT strategically utilizes Twitter because the social media platform facilitates a new and highly public form of resistance. Twitter functions as a vehicle of connection across boundaries, because it enables the USWNT or its individual members to outwardly stand in solidarity with other female athletes and women in general. The platform does this by providing them with an opportunity to share their relatively unfiltered and personal perspectives on the issue of equal pay, while simultaneously creating a space of social consciousness. Essentially, Twitter allows the USWNT to “retweet” and interact with their fellow players, engage with sponsors actively supporting their campaign, other female athletes who are or have experienced discrimination, and females, more broadly, in an unimpeded manner. As a strategy for activism and protest, a connection across boundaries, and direct action against its employer, the USWNT’s reliance on Twitter represented a change in tactical methods from previous generations’ attempts to fight for equality

A charge control model for III-V HEMTs using a self-consistent numerical solution of the Schrodinger and Poisson equations

With the increasing demand for smaller devices that can perform faster and more reliably there is a need to explore options that allow for this combination in spite of the fact that smaller size tends to lead to a reduction in reliability and overall device performance. High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have proven superior to MOSFETS and BJTs in the areas of voltage and temperature ranges in which they can operate as well as their high breakdown fields, carrier density and velocity saturation. Studying HEMTs and understanding their constraints and how they respond to variations in their makeup and in the environment in which they will be used can help to make the best possible choices in fabricating these devices as well as pushing the envelope to make them better. In an attempt to study III-V heterojunctions in general, and AlGaN/GaN heterojunctions in particular, a numerical solution to the coupled Poisson-Schrödinger equations will be presented

Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) experiment version 3 data retrievals

Version 3 of the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) experiment data set for some 30 trace and minor gas profiles is available. From the IR solar-absorption spectra measured during four Space Shuttle missions (in 1985, 1992, 1993, and 1994), profiles from more than 350 occultations were retrieved from the upper troposphere to the lower mesosphere. Previous results were unreliable for tropospheric retrievals, but with a new global-fitting algorithm profiles are reliably returned down to altitudes as low as 6.5 km (clouds permitting) and include notably improved retrievals of H2 O, CO, and other species. Results for stratospheric water are more consistent across the ATMOS spectral filters and do not indicate a net consumption of H2 in the upper stratosphere. A new sulfuric-acid aerosol product is described. An overview of ATMOS Version 3 processing is presented with a discussion of estimated uncertainties. Differences between these Version 3 and previously reported Version 2 ATMOS results are discussed. Retrievals are available at http: /atmos.jpl.nasa.gov /atmos

Numerical studies of barotropic stability of stratospheric states

The linear stability properties of basic states relevant to the stratosphere are studied in a barotropic nondivergent spectral model on a sphere. The stability of realistic zonally symmetric jets is examined in the first part, and the second part a deals with zonally asymmetric basic states;In the first part attention is focused on unstable modes that are associated with a region of negative basic state absolute vorticity gradient on the poleward side of the jet. These modes are approximately nondispersive. Study of realistic analytical jet profiles shows that broader jets, and jets which peak at higher latitudes produce poleward modes that are less dispersive. Jet profiles derived from observational data are studied in detail for three Southern Hemisphere winter months, and the results are compared with quasi-nondispersive features which have been observed in satellite data in the Southern hemisphere winter stratosphere. Characteristics of the barotropically unstable modes agree remarkably well with those of the observed features. The appearance of westward moving modes in the summer hemisphere during June, and in analytical profiles with realistic global structure, is noted;The second part focuses on the stability of zonally symmetric basic states which include a realistic jet profile such as previously studied, and a traveling wave resembling observed features in the winter stratosphere. This is of interest because many planetary scale traveling waves are observed in the winter stratosphere. Basic state waves are chosen to resemble observed features. Results for growth rates and energy conversion for the most unstable disturbances are presented as a function of the amplitude and frequency of the basic state wave. These results show ranges of basic state wave amplitude where the total basic state is more stable that a zonally symmetric basic state with the same jet profile, and also ranges where it is more unstable. At very small basic state wave amplitudes, the stability characteristics differ markedly from those for the zonally symmetric problem only when the phase speed of the basic state wave is near that of a free mode of the zonally symmetric problem. Suggestions are given as to how the results may apply to the winter stratosphere

Modern Folk Music Composition: A Self-reflexive Exploration

This thesis is comprised of two parts: six recorded original compositions and this paper, which includes an autobiographical survey of my musical influences and an analysis of the compositions. The compositions are all instrumental, written in a modern folk/bluegrass style. This paper discusses my influences and how they affect my writing. In the analysis section, I discuss how each composition has been directly influenced, and how modern recording has become part of the compositional process. The thesis also considers my personal creative experience in writing and recording in a modern studio and live performance context

Premiere Valse

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Scherzo-Minuet

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